AREA COVID-19 REPORT FOR AUGUST 20,2021
Cumberland County: 545 Active Cases +74 New Cases Reported 7,890 Total Cases, 152 Deaths (+5) and 183 Hospitalized Since the beginning of reports A Total of 7,193 Cases now reported as In ...
SEVERE FLOODING WEST OF NASHVILLE
Catastrophic flooding has been reported in the counties to the west and southwest of Nashville during the past 12 hours where as much as 8 to 14 inches of rain has fallen. Hardest hit areas are report ...
TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE WARNS AGAINST FRAUDULENT TEXT MESSAGES
Nashville- The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is investigating reports of a Government Grant Scam targeting Tennesseans by text message. The messages fraudulently claim to be from Attorney Gener ...
REPORTED CASES OF COVID-19 IN CHILDREN HITS NEW RECORD HIGH
According to the Tennessee Department of Health, for the 2nd straight day, Tennessee has set a new daily record for COVID-19 cases among school-age children (ages 5-18). 1,850 in yesterday's report, u ...
TENNESSEE UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE MONTH
NASHVILLE - According to newly released data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Tennessee’s statewide unemployment rate decreased for the second consecutive month in July. The pr ...
ANDERSON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ON SOFT LOCKDOWN
ANDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - Anderson County High School is on soft lockdown while the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office pursues a suspect on foot, officials with the schools said. The lockdown is ...
COVID-19 REPORT FOR AUGUST 18, 2021
Statistics release from the Tennessee Department of Health on Wednesday reveal that for the first time in several weeks, active cases of COVID-19 in Tennessee dropped by 288 to 62,456. The state has n ...
GREENVILLE CHURCH DESTROYED IN TUESDAY FIRE
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – A Greene County church was destroyed in a fire Tuesday. Sheriff Wesley Holt said the Riverview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church at 400 Sanford Circle was a “total lo ...
DR. PIERCEY: IF YOU DON’T HAVE A TRUE MEDICAL EMERGENCY, DONT GO TO THE ER
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The Tennessee Department of Health says members of the Tennessee National Guard will deploy to hospitals to respond to the rising number of hospitalizations in the state to f ...
HATE CRIMES RISING IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
117 hate crimes were committed in Tennessee during 2019, according to the United States Department of Justice. “There has been a trend, and it’s slightly trending upwards,” says FBI Supervisory Speci ...
SCHOOL DISTRICTS ATTEMPT TO RESIST GOVERNOR LEE’S MASK MANDATE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally responded to Tennessee school districts’ statements on Gov. Bill Lee’s masking executive order Tuesday. McNally said that Tennessee legislatu ...
YAGER ANNOUNCES THREE STAR GRANTS FOR AREA COUNTIES
State Senator Ken Yager (R-Kingston) congratulated county officials in Campbell, Morgan, Pickett, Rhea, Roane, Scott and Fentress Counties in Senate District 12 for receiving a combined $271,000 in Th ...
